Ilaria Graziano & Francesco Forni - Twinkle Twinkle (2018)

Francesco Forni and Ilaria Graziano met at the beginning of their careers. Since then, they went across to each other in different projects and after a while they created an acoustic duo. They performed all around Europe in the United States and Canada. The sound they give life to is full of different influences, included folk music, country and blues. They like to connect the tracks they compose with traditional folk, coming from the South of Italy or Eastern Europe as well as from the American music treasures. Original tracks from Francesco s and Ilaria s solo albums as well as from her well-known movies soundtracks are among their repertoire.

Francesco s and Ilaria s performance together is a very interesting mix of languages, from Italian to English, from French to Spanish as well as Southern Italy s dialect, with some influence from Eastern Europe too. The result is a continuous game and role exchange between the soft, warm and fascinating sound of Francesco s guitar who sometimes seems to be close to catch fire and the evocative voice of Ilaria which could as well be coming from another time and space, hypnotic as it is. To live one of their performance means to go through an experience that can hardly be forgotten and, on the contrary, holds on one s heart and mind for a long time. And leaves you surprised for its originality and uniqueness.